A.I. Companies Are Stealing Your Face with Kashmir Hill

Factually! with Adam Conover

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Comedy

4.4 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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The concept of privacy has drastically eroded over the past 30 years. The internet made our personal data more accessible than ever, but the most alarming development yet? Even your own face is no longer private. This week, Adam sits down with Kashmir Hill, New York Times reporter and author of Your Face Belongs to Us: A Tale of AI, a Secretive Startup, and the End of Privacy, to discuss how companies are exploiting our most personal information—including our very identities—for profit, and what that means for the future of privacy. Find Kashmir’s book at http://www.factuallypod.com/books.

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0:00.0	This is a headgum podcast.
0:05.0	I don't know the truth.
0:08.3	I don't know the way.
0:10.9	I don't know what to think.
0:13.6	I don't know what to say.
0:16.6	Yeah, but that's all right.
0:19.4	That's okay.
0:21.6	I don't know anything.
0:25.0	Hey, everybody.
0:25.8	Welcome to Factually.
0:26.7	I'm Adam Conover.
0:27.6	Thanks for joining me on the show again.
0:29.1	You know, we're living in a world where our data is out of our hands.
0:32.7	Our habits, our connections.
0:34.3	And, of course, our faces are just out there,
0:36.7	flickering on some company's servers
0:38.4	waiting to be scraped by whoever, for whatever purpose they choose.
0:43.0	The very idea of privacy today seems to be something different or seems to be altogether gone
0:48.9	versus what it would have been 30 or 50 years ago.
0:52.4	So what happens when an ambitious new company decides it wants to degrade our privacy
0:57.3	even further?
0:59.5	Well, my guest today is one of the best privacy reporters working, and she wrote a fascinating
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